Scarlett Johansson blasts Ivanka Trump
The actress called the first daughter disappointing .
On Thursday, Scarlett Johansson revealed, in an interview with Arianna Huffington at the Women in the World Summit in New York, that she’s not proud of Ivanka Trump’s role in her father, the US President Donald Trump’s administration so far.
The Ghost in the Shell actress said, “I’ve been thinking a lot about Ivanka Trump. I’m sure you saw the interview she did with Gayle King yesterday. It was kind of baffling. You can’t have it both ways, right? If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly, right? Yesterday, she said something that I found particularly disappointing, which is that the greatest change she was going to make... would be behind closed doors, and nobody would actually know she made this change,” she added, and the crowd laughed, reports USAToday.com.
“I thought to myself, ‘Well, that’s empowering!’ How old-fashioned, this idea that behind a great man is a great woman. What about being in front of that person, or next to that person? She has the opportunity to make a big impact, just by being vocal,” Johansson said.
In an earlier interview, Ivanka had said, “If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but I hope time will prove that I have done a good job, and much more importantly, that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”